# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leon-poirier
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:10:49.160Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leon-poirier"
name: "Léon Poirier"
slug: "leon-poirier"
description: "Léon Poirier was a French film director, screenwriter and film producer best known for his silent films from 1913 onwards. He directed some 25 films between 1913 and 1949. His most famous film today is Verdun: Visions of History, a drama-documentary depicting the World War I Battle of Verdun. His later films adopted a form of poetic realism influenced by pictorialist photography."
tagline: "French film producer, screenwriter and director (1884-1968)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/83/L%C3%A9on_Poirier.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1884-08-24"
deathDate: "1968-06-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.07
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.672462666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0688543/"
    handle:    "nm0688543"
sources:
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Poirier"
    title: "Léon Poirier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%BE%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "ليون پويرير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Poirier"
    title: "Léon Poirier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Poirier"
    title: "Léon Poirier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Poirier"
    title: "Léon Poirier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D8%A6%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%BE%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%87"
    title: "لئون پواریه"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Poirier"
    title: "Léon Poirier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Poirier"
    title: "Léon Poirier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3271271"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1334665"
    title: "Léon Poirier"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump